CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................ ix
List of Figures and Tables ......................................................... xvii
List of Color Plates .................................................................... xxi
List of Contributors ................................................................... xxiii
Ethnolinguistic Map of China ................................................... xxvii
Dynasties and Periods of China ................................................ xxix
PART I
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Humanity’s Beginnings in Creation and Origin Myths
from Around the World ........................................................ 3
Mineke Schipper
The World of Chinese Mythology: An Introduction ............... 25
Yang Lihui and An Deming
From Frog to Nüwa and Back Again: The Religious Roots
of Creation Myths ................................................................. 55
Ye Shuxian
Water-of-Immortality Myths in Altaic and Japanese
Cultures .................................................................................. 79
G. Namjila
Myths of Giant Corpse Transformation ................................... 99
Jung Jaeseo
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PART II
REDISCOVERING THE BEGINNING IN TEXTS
Sacred Order: Cosmogonic Myth in the Chu Silk
Manuscript ............................................................................. 117
Kao Lifeng
The Wholeness of Chaos: Laozi on the Beginning .................. 135
Kristofer Schipper
Gun and Yu: Revisiting the Chinese “Earth-Diver”
Hypothesis .............................................................................. 153
Chen Lianshan
Pangu and the Origin of the Universe ..................................... 163
Wu Xiaodong
PART III
ORAL TRADITION AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY
Chinese Creation Myths: A Great Discovery ........................... 179
Wu Bing’an
Minority Creation Myths: An Approach to Classication ....... 197
Wang Xianzhao
Humanism as a Paradigm for Creation Myths ........................ 219
Liu Yahu
Performing Myths Today: A Field Study of the Renzu
Temple Festival ...................................................................... 239
Yang Lihui
Perspectives on the Environment in Miao and Yi Creation
Narratives ............................................................................... 261
Mark Bender
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PART IV
ANTHOLOGY OF CREATION AND ORIGIN MYTHS
Creation Myths in Chinese Minority Cultures ......................... 279
Oroqen Origin ........................................................................... 281
Oroqen
Dangun ...................................................................................... 283
Korean
All Creatures Made out of Clay ............................................... 285
Ewenki
Bear Origin ................................................................................ 287
Ewenki
God’s Creation of the World .................................................... 289
Manchu
The First Man: Son of Celestial Maiden Fukulun ................... 291
Manchu
Creation of the World by Goddess Mai Deer .......................... 293
Mongolian
Khudai Blows to Create the Heaven and the Earth ................ 295
Salar
Creation of the Mortal World ................................................... 297
Tu
Beauty Ai Sema ......................................................................... 299
Uyghur
Zhe Pama and Zhe Mima ........................................................ 301
Achang
Origin of all Living Creatures ................................................... 305
Bai
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Bu Sanggai and Ya Sanggai ...................................................... 307
Dai
How Heaven Came to Be Separated from Earth .................... 309
Derung
Muq pung gyeu ......................................................................... 311
Derung
Four Generations of Man ......................................................... 313
Gelao
Creation of Man, Heaven and Earth ....................................... 315
Hani
Heaven and Earth Created by Frog .......................................... 319
Hani
Heaven and Earth Created by E Ya and Sha Ya .................... 323
Lahu
Bibliography ............................................................................... 325
Index .......................................................................................... 335
Color Plates ................................................................................ 347
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《中国创世与起源神话——口头与书面传统的跨文化探索》(China"s Creation and Origin Myths: Cross-cultural Explorations in Oral and Written Traditions)新书发布会将于2011年5月26日在荷兰莱顿国际亚洲研究所(IIAS)举行。该书由荷兰莱顿大学的米尼克•希珀(Mineke Schipper)教授、中国社会科学院的叶舒宪研究员、尹虎彬研究员编辑，由Brill出版社(波士顿、莱顿)于2011年5月出版。